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Nottm Forest v Coventry team news: Jair in, three Sky Blues changes

19 September 2026 391 comments
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Our final Premier League match of the day sees Nottingham Forest face bottom-of-the-table Coventry City at the City Ground.

Kick-off is at 17:30 BST.

Frank Lampard’s side are without a single Premier League point or goal to their name after four Gameweeks.

The Tricky Trees, meanwhile, have bounced back from a narrow opening-day defeat to embark on a three-match unbeaten run.

TEAM NEWS

Forest boss Oliver Glasner makes just one change from their 2-1 win over Aston Villa last Saturday.

Jair Cunha returns from injury to take the place of Ola Aina, who drops to the bench.

The most-bought player of Gameweek 5, Morgan Gibbs-White, starts, as expected. So too do Murillo, Daniel Munoz, Neco Williams and Liam Delap, all of whom were snapped up by over 100,000 Fantasy Premier League (FPL) managers ahead of Friday’s deadline.

As for the visitors, Lampard makes three changes to the side he sent out in Gameweek 4.

All three alterations are enforced as Aurele Amenda and Milan van Ewijk are out injured and Taiwo Awoniyi is suspended.

Caleb Yirenkyi, Brandon Thomas-Asante and Stephen Mfuni come into the Sky Blues’ starting line-up.

LINE-UPS

Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Cunha, Diomande, Murillo, Munoz, Schlager, McAtee, Williams, Gibbs-White, Ndoye, Delap.

Subs: Aina, Dominguez, Hudson-Odoi, Victor, Jesus, Netz, Sangare, Wood, Yates.

Coventry XI: Rushworth, Yirenkyi, Thomas, Pinnock, Mfuni, Dasilva, Grimes, Onyeka, Rudoni, Mason-Clark, Thomas-Asante.

Subs: Bentley, Cherif, Gboho, Hamer, Latibeaudiere, Sakamoto, Simms, Tchaouna, Torp.

LIVE GAMEWEEK 5 PAGE + MATCH CENTRE

Forest Coventry

You can follow all the day’s action via the Live Gameweek page, which you can find in the all-new FPL Toolkit section.

Here you can track the scores, watch the defensive contribution (DefCon) points roll in, see who the leading players are for xG and more as the games play out.

And there’s also the all-new Match Centre to explore. Here, you’ll find stats, heatmaps, rolling xG graphs and more on every Premier League fixture.

A lot is free for all, with Chief Scout Members getting full access.

Enjoy!

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  1. Biggsy
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 12 Years
    2 hours, 59 mins ago

    Too much to ask for Neco to get another 9 defcons?

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    1. DRIZ ✅
      • 14 Years
      2 hours, 57 mins ago

      I was going to bring him or Munoz after INT break. Will think again now

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      1. Biggsy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        2 hours, 54 mins ago

        Palace and Ipswich away and bench for Arsenal. Some good prospects still.

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  2. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 13 Years
    2 hours, 59 mins ago

    Will Wood take the penalty now should they win one?

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    1. DRIZ ✅
      • 14 Years
      2 hours, 58 mins ago

      Yes

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  3. All Hail K
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 17 Years
    2 hours, 59 mins ago

    Forest only down a goal but their supporters have given up.

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  4. el polako
    • 9 Years
    2 hours, 57 mins ago

    I want to rage WC but to be honest aside from Groß (just to break him) and maybe swapping Munoz I don’t have an idea who I want.

    So many players scoring each week, not sure what the template is.

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    1. Count of Monte Hristo
      • 13 Years
      2 hours, 54 mins ago

      Do you even want a template? That will quickly become stale and boring and what many will likely end up with.

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      1. el polako
        • 9 Years
        2 hours, 51 mins ago

        Fair point.
        Maybe just need to chill and walk away from my team.

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  5. Count of Monte Hristo
    • 13 Years
    2 hours, 57 mins ago

    Delap is a terrible footballer, nepotism at work.

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    1. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 14 Years
      2 hours, 56 mins ago

      How dare you! He went up from 5.5 to 5.6 overnight 😀

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      1. Count of Monte Hristo
        • 13 Years
        2 hours, 52 mins ago

        The only ones at fault there are those who copy the Scout Picks 😉

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    2. King Carlos
      • 11 Years
      2 hours, 55 mins ago

      He's more interested in showing his legs than playin

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      1. Count of Monte Hristo
        • 13 Years
        2 hours, 53 mins ago

        Can’t score goals, just smashes into people and collects yellow cards for fun. Better suited to Aussie Rules, at least that way he can wear ankle socks and show more leg.

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  6. bso
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 11 Years
    2 hours, 55 mins ago

    Sangare to Schade a good move?

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  7. tiger
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 14 Years
    2 hours, 55 mins ago

    Saved by Jesus

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  8. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 14 Years
    2 hours, 54 mins ago

    Finally!

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  9. Feanor
    • 17 Years
    2 hours, 54 mins ago

    Jesus G

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    1. Pep Roulette
      • 8 Years
      2 hours, 54 mins ago

      Assist?

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      1. have you seen cyan
        • 7 Years
        2 hours, 53 mins ago

        none

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      2. Biggsy
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 12 Years
        2 hours, 53 mins ago

        Sounds like no assist from.BBC description

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    2. All Hail K
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 17 Years
      2 hours, 52 mins ago

      Don't celebrate until VAR has had a chance to suck the fun out of it.

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  10. JBG
    • 8 Years
    2 hours, 54 mins ago

    Jesus is a better ST than Delap, hell a retired Shearer is probably better than current Delap

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    1. King Carlos
      • 11 Years
      2 hours, 50 mins ago

      Im better than Delap

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  11. Three Pints of Schlager
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    2 hours, 53 mins ago

    Yirenkyi with touchdown

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  12. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 14 Years
    2 hours, 53 mins ago

    This is going to get overturned, isn't it?

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    1. Hughes Your Daddy
      • 14 Years
      2 hours, 52 mins ago

      Lets hope so

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  13. Feanor
    • 17 Years
    2 hours, 53 mins ago

    Var overturned lol

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  14. King Carlos
    • 11 Years
    2 hours, 53 mins ago

    Var, no goal... joje

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  15. Supersonic_
    • 5 Years
    2 hours, 52 mins ago

    Gvard hatrick needed tomorrow

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  16. Bobby Digital
    • 9 Years
    2 hours, 52 mins ago

    These VAR calls are ridiculous

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  17. DeSelby
    • 4 Years
    2 hours, 52 mins ago

    This could be the worst VAR fail yet. And that's saying something.

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  18. Magic Zico
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 hours, 52 mins ago

    Oh come on

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  19. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 14 Years
    2 hours, 51 mins ago

    lol this is great

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  20. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 14 Years
    2 hours, 51 mins ago

    Of course.

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  21. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 14 Years
    2 hours, 51 mins ago

    VAR needs to go. Killing the game.

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    1. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 hours, 50 mins ago

      Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

      VAR doesn't mess up football. Corrupt and stupid officials mess up football.

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      1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
        • 14 Years
        2 hours, 48 mins ago

        Yep. And VAR is the gun that allows them to do so. Take it away and far fewer people are killed.

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  22. denial
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 17 Years
    2 hours, 51 mins ago

    Terrible call again. Honestly ffs.

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  23. Esraj
    • 10 Years
    2 hours, 51 mins ago

    That's farcical. The game is rigged.

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    1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 14 Years
      2 hours, 49 mins ago

      It's not rigged - what would be the point rigging it in the favor of Coventry, of all clubs? - it's just changed. And not for the best.

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      1. Esraj
        • 10 Years
        2 hours, 40 mins ago

        The whole VAR is a massive rig, a set up, to destroy this game.

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  24. Hughes Your Daddy
    • 14 Years
    2 hours, 49 mins ago

    Right decision, how did it take so long, clearly stepped on his foot

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    1. Drop Dead Tsimikas
      • 14 Years
      2 hours, 49 mins ago

      Took about as long as it took Y. to go down.

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  25. Three Pints of Schlager
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    2 hours, 49 mins ago

    This new guy's name scores +50.points in a scrabble game.

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  26. Capocannonieri
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 8 Years
    2 hours, 49 mins ago

    "He stepped his my laces! It ruined his vanity laces"

    I would be mad as a NF fan

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  27. JBG
    • 8 Years
    2 hours, 49 mins ago

    Morgan Gibbs-Shite.

    Also VAR has been atrocious so far this season

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  28. Drop Dead Tsimikas
    • 14 Years
    2 hours, 49 mins ago

    And a push to the back is not a FK. Clearly.

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  29. Three Pints of Schlager
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    • 5 Years
    2 hours, 48 mins ago

    Delap slapstick

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    1. Three Pints of Schlager
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 5 Years
      2 hours, 48 mins ago

      Delapstick

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    2. Biggsy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 12 Years
      2 hours, 47 mins ago

      Liam Deslapstick?

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      1. Three Pints of Schlager
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        2 hours, 47 mins ago

        That's the one

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    3. King Carlos
      • 11 Years
      2 hours, 47 mins ago

      Liam Delapdancer

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    4. FPL Blow-In
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      • 13 Years
      2 hours, 47 mins ago

      Delap my bishop

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      1. Three Pints of Schlager
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        • 5 Years
        2 hours, 46 mins ago

        Gross

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  30. DRIZ ✅
    • 14 Years
    2 hours, 48 mins ago

    Var ruins MGW/Delap assist

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